Events

Upcoming Events: When: Where:

 

   

 

Past Events: When: Where:

Conference:

"Peripheries: Decentering Urban Theory" - February 5 - 7, 2009. 

Program available here.

February 5-7, 2009 Howard Room, Faculty Club
Mellon Colloquium: "Transnational Spaces, Transborder Places: The United States, Mexico, and Guatemala Borderlands" Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:00-2:00PM 221 Stevens Hall

"Closer to Home: Eating from Local Foodsheds"

This panel discussion will investigate the opportunities and challenges of eating locally grown food from the perspectives of public health, food
access, school food service, and regional farmland vitality. Panelists will include Ann Cooper, Paula Jones, Jeremy Madsen, and Kimi Watkins-Tartt, with Jason Corburn as moderator.

More Information here.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested at http://enviro.berkeley.edu/amr/foodsheds

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:00-9:00PM 112 Wurster Hall

Symposium: "Bogotá: Lecciones de un Renacer."

Keynote address by former Bogotá mayor, Enrique Peñalosa and talks by Daniel Bermudez, Carolina Barco, Camilio Santamaria, Medellin Gerard Martin, Rachel Berney and UC faculty (co-sponsors)

Friday and Saturday, October 2-4, 2008 Wurster Hall Auditorium and breakout rooms

"Slow Food Nation Considered," a panel discussion with speakers Fred Kirschenmann, Raj Patel, Michael Pollan, and Vandana Shiva, moderated by Richard Walker:

UC Berkeley $10 general admission; free for UC students and staff with valid ID

Tickets sales: 510-642-9988 or www.calperf.berkeley.edu
Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 7:00-9:00PM Wheeler Hall

Lecture by Mark Hildebrand:
"Policy Choices and Slums"

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 2:00-5:00PM 214B Wurster Hall
Discussion with Robert Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, Los Angeles about his book, "Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City" Thursday, March 13, 2008, 2:00-5:00PM 106 Wurster Hall
Roundtable with Dr. Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Montreal: "Architecture is Murder." Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 2:00PM 316 Wurster Hall

Roundtable with Dr. Kin Wai Michael Siu, Professor of Industrial and Environmental Design, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: "Flexible Public Design and Changing Urban Needs."

Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 2:00PM 316 Wurster Hall
Lecture by Gordon Bonan, Senior Scientist, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research: "Revisiting the Meteorologically Utopian City in a Changing Climate" Thursday, November 15, 2007, 3:00-5:00PM 106 Wurster Hall
Demographic Change - A New Challenge for Urban and Regional Development in Germany , speakers from Kaiserslautern Technical University, Germany:
  • Dr. Hans-Joerg Domhardt, "Dimensions and Overview to Demographic Change."
  • Prof. Dr. Gabi Troeger Weiß, "Challenges for Regional Development."
  • Prof. Dr. Annette Spellerberg, "Consequences for Urban Development."
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 4:00-5:00PM Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Symposium: "Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and Other Strategies for Sustainable Development"

Website here.

April 5 - 6, 2007 College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Lecture by Jefferey Sellers, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Southern California: "The Decentered State" Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 4:00PM-5:30PM 104 Wurster Hall
Symposium: "The Future of Shrinking Cities - Problems, Patterns and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context" - Registration deadline: December 30, 2006

Website here.

February 8 - 9, 2007 International House, UC Berkeley
Lecture by Maarten Hajer, Chair of Public Policy and Political Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam: "Public Domain Strategies for Fragmented Cities - Reflections on the recent Urban Conflicts in Europe." Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:00PM 316 Wurster Hall
First Annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture in Transportation by Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark: "Survival of the Unfittest: Why the worst megaprojects get built and how better policy and planning can stop it" Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 5:15PM Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112)
Lecture by Paulo Custódio, Consultant and Founder, Logit Consultoria: "Urban Transportation Trends in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)" Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4 - 5:30PM Wurster Hall, Room 104
Lecture by Professor Yoshi Hayashi, Nagoya University, Japan: "No-Regret Growth and Smart Shrinking: Matching Policy Instruments to the Dynamics of Metropolitan Growth and Change" Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 11 - 12:30PM Wurster Hall, Room 305
Lecture by Lee Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ: "MAKING URBAN TRANSPORT SUSTAINABLE: Notes from 4˝ Years on the Street in Developing Cities in Asia and Latin America" Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 4 - 5:00PM Wurster Hall, Room 104
Lecture by Professor Thomas Sieverts: "The Qualification of Urban Regions for "Soft" Regional Management Strategies" Monday, February 27, 2006, 7PM Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112)

The Global Metropolitan Studies Program Inaugural Event: Lecture by Professor Sir Peter Hall, University College London: "The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe," Reception following lecture

Monday, February 13, 2006, 5 - 6:30PM

 Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112)